Dealing with obsoleted CygUtils packages

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Vladimir G Ivanovic <vladimir@acm.org> wrote:
> How does one remove only those files in a CygUtils usr-local package
> (e.g. zlib, libpng, jbigkit, jpeg, tiff, login and inetutils)
> that are now obsolete because they are included in the standard Cygwin
> distribution? 
> 

Good question.

> I could:
> 
>   * delete everything and reinstall everything

Never.

>   * write a script that removes from /usr/local/... any file that also
>     exists in /usr/...
> 

Would be nice.  Possibly setup could run something like this script if the user
chooses to from the radio buttons.  So, please post it for consumption.

> Are there any other options? How are other people dealing with this
> problem? 
> 

On the fly.

Cheers,

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